The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (Xbox 360, 2009)

LOTR Conquest Review

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Gameplay: Sp:(7/10) / Mp:(8/10)
Singleplayer: 7/10
A solid campaign, but unless you start out with more than usual talent, you'll probably want to start out on the casual difficulty. Inexperienced players will likely be frustrated by the higher difficulties if they try them on their first time through
MultiPlayer: 7/10
Overall similar gameplay to Pandemic's previous work in Star Wars: Battlefront, but with swords, bows, and fire in place of futuristic firearms. Upgrades similar to those in SW: Battlefront 2 would have gone a long way in favor of rebalancing the classes. Somehow, despite having the most health and speed, the warrior feels underpowered. Being backstabbed by Scouts or Mage-spammed also feels extremely cheap.
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Controls: 9/10
Nothing special, nothing broken. It's fairly easy to learn the controls, though some players may find themselves button mashing occasionally. The game does not reward button mashing, however, (especially in the case of the Warrior class,) but rather rewards deliberate, well timed combos.
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Sound: 6.5/10
The dialoge will make you crawl on the floor; you won't find more corn on primetime television. The music is taken straight from the films, which is good. Sound effects, such as sword clashes and arrows are excellent, but again, the auditory experience is better if you just plain mute the voices.
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Story: 7.5/10
Again, like the music, the (first) storyline is based off of the movies, which got their story from Tolkien's masterwork. The second story picks up at Mount Doom using the chilling idea of the One Ring's survival and Sauron's subsequent campaign to dominate Middle Earth.
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Graphics: 8.5/10 (unless the graphics of a game are either superlatively terrible or unspeakably fantastic, I do not average this score into the overall total)
Decent graphics. The worst animation I can think of would be the clouds from archer's poison arrows, they look pretty badly pixellated. Fire may not look realistic, but it does look cool.
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Overall: 7.0/10
Despite the class imbalances and painfully cheesy lines, I still like this game. Perhaps it's partly nostalgia from SW: Battlefront and LOTR: ROTK. In sum, this may not be the game for everyone, but it's worth giving a shot.
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Review system numbers:
1- Terrible: This should have never been done.
2- Bad: Nothing here worth glancing at, broken, or nearly so.
3- Poor: Some value here, but very, little, not really deserving of attention.
4- Acceptable: Good for an hour or two- if you're bored. Really bored.
5- Average: Run-of-the-mill, perhaps even solid, but nothing particularly new or creative.
6- Decent:, Again, fairly common. perhaps a few ingenuitive elements
7- Good: Overall solid, well made and enjoyable. Possibly some flaws, maybe irritating at times, but they don't ruin the experience.
8- Great: Above average. A solid, well executed title. Usually several creative elements.
9- Excellent: Wonderful, plenty of variety, well polished, with only a few minor flaws, if any.
10- Perfect: A magnificent triumph in both execution and ingenuity. Definitely worth looking into.

So Recently I saw that this game lord of the rings was coming out in stores, and decided I would have to get it, cause the old school games on the PS2 were so much fun playing different characters, leveling up, buying combos beating the game in an entire day with a couple of friends you know that sort of thing. Well obviously when a game comes out it is typically 60 bucks so I decided why not find it on ebay, I got a sweet deal ended up paying like 17 dollars plus a 4 dollar shipping fee. I bought this game with high expectations but was horribly disappointed. The graphics are a bit sloppy when it comes to characters but the over all scenery is pretty sweet. There are 16 levels eight as the good guys and eight as the bad which I suppose is kind of cool, but I was disappointed it was like a big old game of capture the flag or secure the headquaters. I basically felt like i was playing a game with one objective after another with the same combo and the same style of attacking it was super repetitve and I lost intrest within an hour or so. I Also had a chance to play the online which I have to say game play is somewhat faster paced but still has the same objective as the story mode and gets old with in five minutes because of the queers who go invisible and kill you. That just reminded me you can choose who you wanna play, an archor, a wizard, a swordsman or this little douche that goes invisible and kills people that wasnt even in the movie or the books, this game was a huge let down no perks same moves, only differnce is you can play as the bad guys and kill hobits which was fun i guess. But honestly wait till its a greatest hit or rent it or if you have a modded machine download it off a fourm burn it and play it you will see what i mean by the annoying game play. I already sold my copy to hastings for 40 so that pretty much says it all!

First of all, the seller was great, but the product is a little short. In the game, you can play all the famous battles in the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. A great addition to the game was a second campaign where you can fight all the battles through the bad guys' point of view. Four classes are playable: The Warrior- A dude with a sword, An Archer- A long-range fighter, The Scout- a guy that has two short knives that can be invisible and can sneak up on enemies and "Quick Kill" them, and the Mage- A wizard. Heroes and Villains are also playable: Aragorn (warrior type), Legolas (archer type), Gandalf (mage type), and you can also play as the dark lord Sauron. The concept of the game is not original, because it is just like Lucasarts' Star Wars: Battlefront series. Capture "posts" around the battle field to win, or just beat everyone up. It's the same game, except you're playing as LOTR characters instead of Star Wars characters. But in my opinion, The Battefront series is much, much better. All in all, this game is only for Lord of the Rings fans, or gamers who want a good fighting game.

This is like a modern version of the arcade classic Gauntlet. You have four character classes to choose from. Archer, Knight, Mage and Scout. They each have strengths and weekneses. If you have ever played Star Wars Battlefront, this plays a lot like it. As it should, its made by the same developer Pandemic. I'm not the hack and slash type so I don't find much enjoyment playing by myself, but the splitscreen action in Co-op mode makes it pretty intense. It alows for strategy such as a knight protecting a mage, or an archer raining down firey death from above to protect a scout.

Overall I would say its a good game.

Lord of the rings: Conquest plays like the famous Star Wars: Battlefront games as it is made by some of the same people. Controls are easy and the graphics are worthy. Most copies run you under $20 which makes it a steal for the price. There isn't a lot of online gaming support as it is an older game, but you will have fun playing co-op with up to 4 other people. Play as Trolls, Ents, famous Tolkien heroes as well as villains. Several game modes make for long usage and 2 different compaigns make it an amazing game. Any LOTR fan would love this game.